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May 17 2008 11:24PM EDT

Steroids and Offensive Production

In the comments to my post earlier this week on the drop in offensive production in baseball thus far this season, cak suggested looking at the slugging percentage in domed stadiums to weed out the weather factor. And here it is:

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Frankly, this make Steve Phillips look much better (and me not so much). As noted in the previous post, the beginning of a season is not a great time for power. The average difference between April slugging and the rest of the season for all stadiums was 10 points between 2001-07. If that happens again, the '08 slugging percentage number will still be considerably below average.
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